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Household vs Dwelling - What's the difference?

household | dwelling |

As nouns the difference between household and dwelling

is that household is collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment while dwelling is a habitation; a place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile.

As an adjective household

is belonging to the same house and family.

As a verb dwelling is

present participle of lang=en.

household

English

(wikipedia household)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.
  • * 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 5:
    • Although I was a member of the royal household , I was not among the privileged few who were trained for rule.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • And calls, without affecting airs, / His household twice a day to prayers.
  • (obsolete) A line of ancestry; a race or house.
  • * 1592 , , IV. vi. 39:
    • In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, / My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Belonging to the same house and family.
  • Of anything found in or having its origin in a home.

    • Derived terms

    * Household Cavalry * household deity * household god * household name

    dwelling

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) dwelling, . More at dwell.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A habitation; a place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings . The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}
    The old house served as a dwelling for Albert.
    Philip's dwelling fronted on the street. -
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * dwellinghouse * dwelling place * lake dwelling: prehistoric structure
    References
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    Etymology 2

    From .

    Verb

    (head)
    • I was dwelling in the cave.